In the Media

John Patton, currently the athletic director and assistant principal at South Whidbey High School, will be promoted to principal of the school in July.

The university is building a first-of-its-kind earthquake database that will include 20 potential quake scenarios for Washington state.

Steve Swan, Vice President of University Relations, says WWU is not considering cutting any departments, but some majors may no longer be offered.

A fight over the state's workers' compensation system threatens to sidetrack the Legislature and hamper progress on closing a $5.1 billion budget shortfall.

A proposal suddenly brought up and passed by the Senate on Wednesday allows higher education institutions to charge Running Start students up to 10 percent of tuition.

The Legislature has already cut higher education funding by more than 30 percent in the past three years, and plan to cut even deeper during the special session.

I challenge the governor and Legislature to make the changes that assure funding for higher education in Washington is not discretionary!

Western Washington University has agreed to pay $135,000 to a dispatcher in its police department who alleged she was fired in 2007 after complaining about co-workers making racist and sexist remarks.

Joel Stedman ... (a) 2003 alumnus of Liberty High School bought a sports bar in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood in December. The Magnolia Village pub, a cozy joint specializing in microbrews and burgers, sits in the heart of Magnolia Village, which Stedman said reminds him of Issaquah’s Gilman Village.

Artist Ryan Henry Ward, better known as Henry, has only been in Seattle for three years and already he has adorned the city with 116 murals. The first 26 of which he did for free.

The recession hit everyone — rich and poor and in-between. The recovery, though, hasn't been so democratic; the "in-between" — people living above the poverty line but below the average wage who made big plans during the last decade — are now fighting just to get a job.